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Common names include poison peach, native peach and peach-leaved poison bush. The poison peach is well regarded by rainforest regenerators for quick growth, shelter and shade and as a nursery species, and as a bird-attracting plant. The habitat is rainforest regrowth, in disturbed open areas of rainforest, by forest roads, and in open forest ...
Trema tomentosum, [1] also known as T. tomentosa and commonly called poison peach, [2] is a shrub or tree in the family Cannabaceae native to the Indian subcontinent, south east Asia, through the islands of the south west Pacific, [1] and the east coast and northern half of Australia.
While peach seeds are not the most toxic within the rose family (see bitter almond), large consumption of these chemicals from any source is potentially hazardous to animal and human health. [ 148 ] Peach allergy or intolerance is a relatively common form of hypersensitivity to proteins contained in peaches and related fruits (such as almonds ).
The entire plant is poisonous to humans and animals but especially the roots, which contain cardiac glycosides. [161] [162] Menispermum spp. moonseed Menispermaceae: The fruits and seeds are poisonous, causing nausea and vomiting; often fatal. [citation needed] Mentha pulegium: pennyroyal, pennyrile Lamiaceae
Amygdalin (from Ancient Greek: ἀμυγδαλή amygdalē 'almond') is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in many plants, most notably in the seeds (kernels, pips or stones) of apricots, bitter almonds, apples, peaches, cherries and plums, and in the roots of manioc.
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 ...
Plum pox, also known as sharka, is the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus Prunus.The disease is caused by the plum pox virus (PPV), and the different strains may infect a variety of stone fruit species including peaches, apricots, plums, nectarine, almonds, and sweet and tart cherries.
Myzus persicae, known as the green peach aphid, greenfly, or the peach-potato aphid, [2] is a small green aphid belonging to the order Hemiptera. It is the most significant aphid pest of peach trees, causing decreased growth, shrivelling of the leaves and the death of various tissues.